Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC
نادي الكويت

Full name

Kuwait Sporting Club

Nickname(s)

The Brigadiers

Founded

20 October 1960

Ground

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium
Kaifan, Kuwait City

Capacity

18,500

Chairman

Abdulaziz Al Marzouq

Manager

Abdullah Abu Zema

League

VIVA Premier League

2016–17

VIVA Premier League, 1st

Website

Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي‎‎) is a Kuwaiti professional football and basketball ^[1] club. The football team has won the Kuwaiti Premier League 14 times, with the most recent one coming in 2013-2014. Kuwait SC also have 37 trophies to their name in Kuwaiti Club Football history. Kuwait SC plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. Kuwait SC is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title that is, the AFC Cup in 2009, 2012, 2013. Kuwait SC is also one of the first sports club to have been established in Kuwait.

Stadium

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Al Kuwait Kaifan. The stadium has a capacity of 18,500 seats. The stadium hosted the final matches of the Kuwait Emir Cup and Kuwait Crown Cup for the past five seasons. It also hosted matches for the national team during the 1974 Gulf Cup of Nations, where Kuwait won their third title after winning 4–0 against Saudi Arabia.

Honours

Domestic

45 Official Titles

VIVA Premier League:
- Winners (13): 1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17
- Runners-up (11): 1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004–05, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16
Kuwait Emir Cup:
- Winners (12): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17
- Runners-up (9): 1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011
Kuwait Crown Prince Cup:
- Winners (6): 1994, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17
- Runners-up (6): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–2015
Kuwait Federation Cup:
- Winners (5): 1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15
- Runners-up (2): 2008, 2015-16
Kuwait Super Cup:
- Winners (3): 2010, 2015, 2016
- Runners-up (4): 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014
Al Kurafi Cup: (defunct)
- Winners (1): 2005
Kuwait Joint League : 2 (defunct)
- Winners (2): 1976–77, 1988–89

Asian

AFC Cup:
- Winners (3): 2009, 2012, 2013
- Runners-up (1): 2011

Friendly

Bani Yas International Tournament:
- Winners (1): 2012

Statistics in Asian football

AFC Champions League:5 appearances

2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd Round

2005: Group Stage

2007: Group Stage

2008: Group Stage

2014: 3rd Round Qualifying

AFC Cup: 7 appearances

2009: Winners

2010: Round of 16

2011: Runners-up

2012: Winners

2013: Winners

2014: Quarter Finals

2015: Semi Finals

Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

2002: Group Stage

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2001–02	Asian Club Championship	1st Round	Jableh	2–0	0–0
		2nd Round	Al-Quds Club	3–2	6–1
		Group Stage	Nasaf Qarshi	1–1
			Al-Wahda	2–2
			Esteghlal	0–3
2002–03	AFC Champions League	2nd Round	Al-Ahli	3–1	0–2
2005	AFC Champions League	Group Stage	Neftchi	1–0	0–1
			Al-Sadd	0–1	0–3
			Al-Ahli	1–0	3–3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1
			Pakhtakor	0–1	1–2
2008	AFC Champions League	Group Stage	Saipa	1–1	0–1
			Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–2	0–0
			Al-Wasl	2–1	0–1
2009	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Al-Wahdat	1–0	1–1
			Al-Karamah	2–1	1–2
			Mohun Bagan	6–0	1–0
		Round of 16	Dempo	3–1
		QuarterFinal	Arbil	1–1	1–0
		Semifinal	South China	2–1	1–0
		Final	Al-Karamah	2–1
2010	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Al Hilal	2–2	2–0
			Churchill Brothers	7–1	2–2
		Round of 16	Al-Ittihad	1–1(aet) (4–5) pso)
2011	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Al-Wahdat	1–3	0–1
			Al-Suwaiq	0–0	3–1
			Al Talaba	1–0	2–1
		Round of 16	Qadsia	2–2(aet) 3–2(pso)
		QuarterFinal	Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		SemiFinal	Arbil	3–3	2–0
		Final	Nasaf Qarshi	1–2
2012	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Al-Ettifaq	1–5	2–2
			VB Sport Club	7–1	2–2
			Al Ahed	1–0	4–0
		Round of 16	Qadsia	1–1(aet) 3–1(pso)
		Quarterfinal	Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semifinal	Al-Ettifaq	4–1	2–0
		Final	Arbil	4–0
2013	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Regar-TadAZ	5–0	3–1
			Al-Safa	3–1	0–1
			Riffa SC	2–3	2–0
		Round of 16	Dohuk	1–1(aet) 4–1(pso)
		Quarterfinal	New Radiant	5–0	7–2
		Semifinal	East Bengal	4–2	3–0
		Final	Al-Qadsia	2–0
2014	AFC Champions League	1st Round	Al-Shorta	1–0
		2nd Round	Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–1
		3rd Round	Lekhwiya SC	1–4
	AFC Cup	Group	Nejmeh SC	2–1	0–0
		Group	Fanja	4–0	1–3
		Group	Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16	Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarterfinal	Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015	AFC Cup	Group	Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
		Group	Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
		Group	Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16	Al Shorta SC	2–0

Players

First team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Mos'aab Al Kandari
2	DF	Yaqoub Al Taher
3	DF	Fahad Awadh
7	MF	Fahad Al Enezi
8	MF	Abdullah Al Buraiki
9	MF	Abdulhadi Khamis
11	FW	Ali Al Kandari
13	DF	Abdul Sallam Amur
15	MF	Waleed Ali
16	FW	Khaled Al Azemi
18	MF	Jarah Al Ateeqi (Captain)
19	FW	Vinícius Lopes
20	DF	Hussain Hakem
22	GK	Bader Al Azmi
25	DF	Fahed Jahel

No.	Position	Player
29	MF	Mohammad Al Azmi
31	MF	Sami Al Sanea
32	FW	Ahmad Al Saqer
33	DF	Fahad Hamoud
34	GK	Abdulrahman Al Hussainan
35	MF	Nasser Al Shaqqath
37	MF	Sherida Khaled
38	DF	Fahad Al Ansari
41	MF	Yousef Rubaie
42	FW	Abdullah Al Sallal
43	FW	Yaqoub Husain
44	DF	Mohammad Al Faresi
47	MF	Shaeem Al Khamees
—	MF	Jairo Palomino
—	FW	Juma Saeed (on loan from Al-Salmiya)

Presidents and managers

List of presidents

Years	Chairman
1961–63	Mohamed Al Khaled Al Zayed
1963–65	Fahad Al Marzoq
1965–72	Khidair Masha'an
1972–74	Mubarak Al Asfoor
1974–81	Khidair Masha'an
1981–92	Ali Thunaien Al Ghanim
1992–94	Ghassan Al Nesf
1994–00	Mohammed Al-Sager
2000–02	Jassim Al Mahri
2002	Issam Al Sager
2002	Youssuf Al Munais
2002–08	Marzouq Al-Ghanim
2008–	Abdulaziz Al Marzouq

List of managers

Years	Name
1987–89	Allan Jones
1989–96	John Cartwright
1996	Oleh Bazylevych
1996–97	Slobodan Pavković
2001–02	Rainer Bonhof
2002–03	Ján Pivarník
2003	Saleh Zakaria
2003–04	Giba
2004	Saleh Zakaria
2004–05	Mohamed Abdullah
2005	Theo Bücker
2005–06	Rodion Gačanin
2006	Mohamed Abdullah

Years	Name
2006–07	Willem Leushuis
2007	Mohamed Abdullah
2007–08	Rodion Gačanin
2008	Radmilo Ivančević
2008–09	Laurent Banide
2009	Néstor Clausen
2009–10	Mohamed Abdullah
2010	Arthur Bernardes
2010	Mohamed Abdullah
2010–11	José Romão
2011–12	Dragan Talajić
2012–14	Marin Ion
2014	Aziz Hamada
2014–2016	Mohammed Ebrahim Hajeyah
2016-	Laurent Banide

Marin Ion, manager of the club from 2012 to 2014, having won the Kuwaiti Premier League and the AFC Cup twice in 2012 and 2013 with the team

Other sports

See also Al Kuwait SC (basketball)

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo and weightlifting. Kuwait SC publishes a monthly magazine since 2007.

Club sponsors

References

↑ Al Kuwait SC basketball, asia-basket.com, accessed 2 March 2016.

External links

Official website

Preceded by Al-Muharraq	AFC Cup Runner up: Al-Karamah 2009	Succeeded by Al-Ittihad
Preceded by Nasaf Qarshi	AFC Cup Runner up: Arbil 2012	Succeeded by Holders
Preceded by Holders	AFC Cup Runner up: Qadsia SC 2013	Succeeded by Incumbent

2009 AFC Cup

Champion

Al-Kuwait

Runner Up

Al-Karamah

Eliminated in semi-finalists

Eliminated in quarter-finals

Eliminated in round of 16

West Asia	Al-Majd Al-Zawraa Busaiteen Dempo Safa
East Asia	Home United Kedah PSMS Medan

Eliminated in group stage

West Asia	Al-Ahed Al-Faisaly Al-Hilal Al-Mabarrah Al-Oruba Al-Suwaiq Al-Tilal Al-Wihdat Mohun Bagan Muharraq
East Asia	Club Valencia Eastern Hànội ACB Johor PEA VB

AFC Cup winners
2004: Al-Jaish 2005: Al-Faisaly 2006: Al-Faisaly 2007: Shabab Al-Ordon 2008: Al-Muharraq 2009: Al-Kuwait 2010: Al-Ittihad 2011: Nasaf Qarshi 2012: Al-Kuwait 2013: Al-Kuwait 2014: Al-Qadsia 2015: Johor Darul Ta'zim 2016: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

Football in Kuwait
Kuwait Football Association
National teams	Men's Men's Futsal U-23 U-20 U-17 Women's
Leagues	VIVA Premier League First Division Futsal League
Cups	Emir Cup Crown Prince Cup Super Cup Futsal Federation Cup Futsal Super Cup
Defunct Tournaments	Federation Cup (defunct) Al Kurafi Cup (defunct) Joint League (defunct)
List of clubs List of footballers List of venues Kuwaiti Football Records

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